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Do or die against Pak: Olympics Silver Medallist Rathore to pep talk Indian Cricket team stalwarts
According to Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian cricketers has to take a do or die approach to cricket while paying with the Pakistan.
Cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and their teammates are to get a pep talk from Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore before the start of the upcoming tour by Pakistan. Rathore, who won the silver in the double trap shooting at Athens, is expected to meet the Indian team at Mohali, where the first of the three Tests will be played, from March 4, said a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) official.
"We are inviting Rathore to give a talk on motivation before the Pakistani team's tour begins at the end of this month," the BCCI official said. "We chose Rathore because his achievement is unmatched in the country and he is qualified to speak on the subject because he has the experience of handling intense pressure," said the BCCI official. Rathore became the toast of the nation after he won the silver medal in the difficult double trap-shooting event — the first individual medal by an Indian in Olympics.
Rathore has been constantly travelling and interacting with all kinds of people, from students to businessmen, happily sharing his experience with them. The BCCI working committee is expected to finalise the date and venue of the interaction with Rathore on Thursday in New Delhi. In recent years, the BCCI has been inviting personalities from different walks of life to give motivational lectures ahead of important tournaments/series.
Among those who have so far been invited are seven-time world billiards champion Geet Sethi, Infosys chief NR Narayanamurthy, media personality Prannoy Roy, former All-England badminton champion Prakash Padukone and renowned yoga expert BKS Iyengar.
The BCCI has also invited well-known Australian sports psychologist Sandy Gordon on a few occasions. It is widely believed that Gordon's motivational mantra before the 2003 World Cup helped the Indian team reach the final in South Africa. In the final, however, Sourav Ganguly's team lost to a much superior Australian side.
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